2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTalk about bad optics!
I just saw KamaAina's post about the HRC's ill-conceived Venn diagram. Not as egregious, but equally jarring was this news from San Diego:
The Hillary Clinton campaign officially opened an organizing office in Bankers Hill Tuesday the first in San Diego. Local Clinton supporters Assembly Member Toni Atkins and Councilmember Todd Gloria, along with...snip
Yes, that's right. The area in San Diego where she chose to locate her office is known officially as Bankers Hill.
The jokes practically write themselves. What happened to that one person on the campaign that checks the candidate for toilet paper on the shoes, spinach in the teeth, etc.?
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Hillary-Clinton-Opens-SD-Organizing-Office--379894281.html
-JB
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)you're right they write themselves
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)She is the bankers Hill' after all.
Fairgo
(1,571 posts)It was bound to happen
Shandris
(3,447 posts)Besides, I thought that famous battle was at BUnker Hill! (And it totally was, since I have stayed pretty darn near it!)
Looks like her Meme Team steered her wrong again. I'm tellin' ya, it's total amateur hour up in there.
TimD82
(7 posts)Bankers Hill is near the heart of San Diego's LGBT community. Strategically speaking, it's a fantastic location to open an office for voter outreach.
Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)Hillcrest is the real LGBT center and that sounds much better!
-JB
chollybocker
(3,687 posts)Alas, no. Per Wiki: "The area acquired the name 'Bankers Hill' because of its reputation as a home for the affluent."
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)it is not as posh as it once was. But the optics, if you do not know San Diego, suck
Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Yay religious right!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)that is the wrong neighborhood for that. There is a reason why the Republcians are in Rancho Bernardo.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)But that still isn't really what I would call a place for "megachurch moms". Still have to go a few dozen miles to the North for that target demo.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)as in El Cajon
panader0
(25,816 posts)Don't post any unflattering photos of HRC--you will get a hide.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512012549
Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)to paraphrase Bogie...
Of all the neighborhoods, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.
As a previous poster noted, she is Bankers' Hill.